Ask HN: Is Jobs HN for FOSS?
I was working for colider, it's on codeberg, but i want some contributers, so i am just asking this question.
Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?
I'm searching for a travel blog that wrote a tutorial on how they created custom SVG animations for the routes he took along his trips.
I've been banging my head against Google for a solid 3-4 hours at this point but it is pointless to try to search something there these days so I come here.
I remember that the blogger in question was into photography and photographed the Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove) in New Zealand during early morning with no people there and wrote a post about the process. And of course they had these small SVG animations of their trips at the top of their posts, with a map displaying the route they took, animating the path.
They wrote a pretty in-depth article about how they accomplished this with the help of some custom JS and SVG animations too and I am after that article.
If you know the name of the blog that would absolutely make my day!
Please also feel free to answer if you know anything similar to the title of the blog where somebody has created stylized animated SVG maps of their trips and documented the process they used to create those.
Advice on getting a competitor as a potential co-founder
I'm a solo founder of an e-commerce platform with some traction. I'm open to finding a co-founder and was recently introduced to another solo founder who is effectively a competitor, but with some more traction than me. We're considering joining forces as co-founders, but I have a few concerns:
1. Fast Compatibility Check: We don't have the time or bandwidth for lengthy trial collaborations. How can we quickly assess if we're a good fit as co-founders?
2. Sharing Competitive Secrets: To make this work, we'd have to disclose sensitive information about our business strategies. How do we protect ourselves if it doesn't work out?
3. Potential Fallout: What steps should we take to ensure a clean and fair exit plan if the partnership doesn't succeed?
Any advice on structuring this process and making a well-informed decision would be greatly appreciated!
Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Hello.
Cloudflare's Browser Intergrity Check/Verification/Challenge feature used by many websites, is denying access to users of non-mainstream browsers like Pale Moon.
Users reports began on January 31:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045
This situation occurs at least once a year, and there is no easy way to contact Cloudflare. Their "Submit feedback" tool yields no results. A Cloudflare Community topic was flagged as "spam" by members of that community and was promptly locked with no real solution, and no official response from Cloudflare:
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/access-denied-to-pale-moo...
Partial list of other browsers that are being denied access:
Falkon, SeaMonkey, IceCat, Basilisk.
Hacker News 2022 post about the same issue, which brought attention and had Cloudflare quickly patching the issue:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317886
A Cloudflare product manager declared back then: "...we do not want to be in the business of saying one browser is more legitimate than another."
As of now, there is no official response from Cloudflare. Internet access is still denied by their tool.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com, https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919500
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919501
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards,
and so on, are off topic here.Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
There's a site for searching these posts at https://www.wantstobehired.com.
Ask HN: Books about lifelong engineering/technology career
I am looking for books/blogs that cover a lifelong career in technology (or engineering). Most of the materials typically focus on singular engineering achievement (building Apple I/II (like iWoz) or sending a rocket to the moon (any books about Von Braun) rather than focusing how one builds a life-long career.
The closest I ever found was a post by Will Larson: https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/
Ask HN: Svelte 5 devs, what's your preferred LLM?
I was a Claude sonnet boi until pretty much today and that's because Claude tended to beat all all of the other models, usually. However, recently I started working with svelte 5 for which the Claude experience isn't all that great, so today I went back to good old GPT-4o and I was surprised that it did a much better job for me which left me wondering what else I don't know so I decided to ask to swim intelligence of the interwebs:
What's your favorite large language model for Svelte 5 related problems?
Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
Have you gone back to in-person whiteboards? More focus on practical problems? I really have no idea how the traditional tech interview is supposed to work now when problems are trivially solvable by GPT.
Ask HN: How can I think more like an engineer?
I’ve always been an analyst, but think I was meant to be an engineer. So I'm looking to cultivate a more engineering-centric mindset. I've always admired the problem-solving approach, systematic thinking, and creativity that engineers bring to the table. Could you recommend some books that are particularly good at teaching or illustrating these skills?
Run-All
github.com/clovis818/run-all is a command-line tool that allows you to execute commands across multiple directories based on a customizable directory pattern. It is designed for developers and sysadmins who need to run repetitive tasks in multiple project folders, offering options to exclude directories, run commands in parallel, and more.
Ask HN: Who Uses SDKs for Unity/Unreal/Godot?
My co-founder and I have been working on SDK generators for application APIs, and we recently discovered that SDKs also exist in the game dev world. Honestly its probably dumb that we didnt know this, but we had never even considered the space so it was quite a blind spot So I have two questions: 1. For game devs: how common is it to use an SDK for Godot/Unity/Unreal/other, and what is that experience like? 2. To the SDK devs: what is the ecosystem/DX like for building game engine SDKs? The closest I've ever gotten to game dev was making a flash platforming game 10 years ago, so any insight is super appreciated.
Converge (YC S23) will review your YC application before you submit
Hi HN,
We're the co-founders of Converge. YC was a turning point for us, and we believe that a large contributor to us getting in was the feedback we received from previous YC founders (e.g. founders of PostHog reviewed our application back in the day).
Now that the next YC application deadline is in 8 days, we'd like to pay it forward by offering feedback on your application.
If you’d like a fresh set of eyes, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/H12KqmaaN4zpoYBd9
We’ll do our best to respond with thoughts or suggestions.
Any experience selling AMIs on AWS Marketplace?
AWS Marketplace allows AWS users to buy AMIs, containers, among other things (SaaS, consulting, etc). Does anyone here have experience selling goods (AMIs or containers)? Not interested in SaaS / service.
It seems like there is potential here for good revenue, but the only small company I can find talking about this is Cloudnaut / Wittix.
Obviously marketing in a large App Store is difficult, but does AMI renting work well for buyers? How do version upgrades work (for both buyers and sellers)?
Ask HN: Are there any CLI only tools that are monetised
I'm curious if anyone is aware of pure CLI tools that that are monetised, either by premium support or by offering a free and paid version. Majority I've seen are extensions of some sort of SaaS or desktop product (IDEs, testing, etc.)
Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed"
For a long time i opted out of big tech and worked at startups because i liked being on small collaborative teams building cool impactful things.
More and more I’m sick of VC backed startups as well, because I see how VC money is a deal with the devil that incentivizes people to focus on scale, valuations and exits rather than quality and intrinsic reward from creating a good product. This has rapidly accelerated as I watch VC unabashedly fall in line with this new presidential administration.
Not sure where to turn next though. I could walk away from tech and join a niche legacy industry, but there some much interesting stuff that I’d be closed off to as a result.
As much as I’m looking for an answer, curious if anyone else finds themselves asking the same questions.
Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?
I am seeing more and more stories about people that don't know how to program are using AI to create software products. On a surface level, that suggests that the barrier to entry for software development is lower. But there are at least two new factors: cost of the tools and expectations in the market, which change the equation regarding what makes a product viable.
I'm curious about how the barrier to entry for creating software products has changed since the rapid proliferation of AI development tools.
Ask HN: Best tool for autonomous quick coding assessments?
We place 100s of software development students in internships in the Nordics, and are looking for a way to perform a basic coding skill assessment before matching an intern with a company.
Unfortunately the schools submit to us some students who cannot write code and who will claim otherwise in their written applications, and we find out about this at the latest when the intern is in a real project and unable to perform at all.
The goal of this light-weight assessment would be to simply answer the question: *can this intern read an assignment and proactively write some code?*
So the assessment should have: - a built-in editor - a time limit, like 1 hour - detecting the use of AI / massively copy-pasting from another window to the editor - live preview of the result, e.g. a React UI the intern completed based on instructions
What we don't need/want: - live interview scenario with a supervisor - a full interview (just one assignment per student)
Any suggestions of tools to use? Experiences?
I just submitted for a demo with Coderpad but don't really know where else to look.
My Co-Founder threw away 90% of the code I wrote
TL;DR: This is an appreciation post for all those co-founders who take our messy, hacky code, and somehow transform it into maintainable, production-ready software.
Back in October, my co-founder and I started working on an ambitious project to automate the entire machine learning lifecycle. We split our PoC into two parts: ML model generation (my part) and data generation (his part), tackling them independently. Within weeks, we had cobbled together a solution that could generate datasets from problem descriptions and then train ML models with them. Rather than getting caught up in perfection, we deployed it to AWS, exposed it as an API, and started getting user feedback.
The response was encouraging, but users consistently asked to see under the hood. Given we were working with data, open-sourcing seemed like the natural next step. While part of me wanted to immediately throw our code onto Github, my co-founder wisely suggested we take a step back, review, and refactor the critical pieces first.
Here's where it gets interesting: We decided to swap our codebases. I would review his data generation code, and he would tackle my ML model generation code. What followed was both humbling and enlightening.
His data generation code was a thing of beauty - meticulously documented, well-structured, and so clean that it took me just a couple of days to make minor tweaks for release. My code? Well... my co-founder spent over a week essentially rebuilding it from scratch while preserving the core functionality. In his typical gracious manner, he maintained the essence of what I'd built while making it actually maintainable.
Looking back, I basically threw spaghetti at the wall while my co-founder actually wrote real software. My code worked (somehow). Meanwhile, his codebase was like a well-organised library - everything in its place, properly documented, actually maintainable. Sure, we got our prototype out fast, but I'm pretty sure I owe him a few years of his life for having to deal with my "creative" approach to software engineering.
So here's to all the co-founders out there who clean up after us "move fast and break things" developers. Your dedication to code quality might not always be visible to users, but it's what transforms promising prototypes into lasting products.
Ask HN: PhDs/students, how do you come up with viable problems/solutions?
While I do have the support of advisor, and in general know the bigger research direction, coming up with a relevant doable+innovative research problem is still somewhat upon me and hard. I wanted to read on other researchers' perspective on how they do it, what works and what doesn't. Thanks!
Ask HN: Is there a quick way to validate a research idea?
There's a big step for startups to find a product market fit, is there something similar for research ideas? I can only think of talking to your PhD advisor, or applying for small grants like https://manifund.org or https://experiment.com/, are there any other options? Is there a place online to discuss research ideas before working on them?
Ask HN: What books influenced your moral compass?
I'd love to hear what books influenced you when you were younger and how. I am trying to stock up on books that would benefit my son to read (and me as we read them together).
Native Son by Richard Wright really hit me hard in high school. I'd love to hear what had a big impact on you.
Ask HN: How do you prompt the "advanced" models
I use the Windsurf IDE, which comes with integrated LLM chat and edit functionality. Ever since I switched to it two months ago and for the three months before that I was using Cursor (similar editor), I have always had better results with Claude.
With the apparently more advanced reasoning models I thought that that would change. In Windsurf I have DeepSeek R1 as well as o3-mini available. I had thought that they would improve my outcomes to the prompts that I'm giving. They did not, far from it. Even though in benchmarks they consistently pull ahead of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, in reality, with the way I am prompting, Claude almost always comes up with the better solution. So much so, that I can't remember a time where Claude couldn't figure it out and then switching to another model fixed it for me.
Because of the discrepancy between benchmarks and my own experience I am wondering if my prompting is off. It may be that I am prompting Claude specific having used it for a while now. Is there a trick to know to prompt the reasoning models "properly"?
Ask HN: Learning PySpark and Related Tools
Hey HN,
I have been working in the data-science and machine-learning domain for the past 8 years or so. I have not been exposed to tools such as PySpark etc. which are being asked frequently in job descriptions. What resource or certification can I use to get upto par on PySpark?
Thanks!
Ask HN: Embedded Rust Programming. What's Happening?
Hello. I've recently picked up learning Rust. I'm especially interested in using Rust in embedded programming. Reading this right now - https://docs.rust-embedded.org/discovery/microbit/
How far has Rust come in embedded programming? Anyone working on something interesting in this area? What's the job market like? Any advice for amateur programmers like me trying to land a job in this?
Ask HN: Any "complete" books about developing CAD/CAM software/3D editors?
I am looking for literature describing concepts and implementations of computer aided design and generic 3D modeling. I have no idea about literature in this field. Does any "fundamental books" presenting more or less coherent analysis of this subjects exist? I'm also interested in ancient and highly theoretical publications.
How to prepare to flee your country?
I live in the bay area, and like it here, but am starting to think it would be smart to get things lined up so that it would be possible to leave fairly quickly and establish a life in another country if necessary.
I'm looking for insights into what complications are likely to come up if I'm trying to flee at the same time as a large number of others. For example, that might make it a very bad time to try to sell your home.
DockerHub Registry Down
It seems like pulling image from DockerHub is not possible right now. I'm greeted by a 500. It's not officially acknowledged but sites like https://statusgator.com/services/docker have already detected it.
Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback
Are you an indie hacker building a product?
Show your work, and we’ll share our initial feedback!
Please, let’s make it a positive, constructive thread.
Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam?
Recently, I was trying to a buy a domain for which we had bid in Godaddy. We bid the suggested price in Godaddy. Our bid was rejected buy the owner.
That peaked my curiosity to check who actually owned the website.
When we ran whois on the domain. The name that pops up is Wild West Domains, LLC [http://www.wildwestdomains.com]
When you look further, Godaddy's CEO is the CEO of Wild West Domains. Lot of the staff are part of this LLC.
Just wondering what is it all about?